A judge ruled mostly in favor of the Association of Deputy District Attorneys for Los Angeles County in a petition brought against District Attorney George Gascon, saying he cannot order his prosecutors to ignore laws that the union says protect
ANIMAL WATCH-On January 27, Los Angeles County Sheriff s Bloodsport Team seized 70 roosters in an investigation of a possible cockfighting operation in LLanos, California, an unincorporated area southeast of Palmdale in Los Angeles County.
Detective Joel Bronson told reporters that suspects were identified but no arrests made, pending the outcome of the examination of the birds by LA County Animal Control veterinarians, according to the Los Angeles Times. The sheriff s department typically launches investigations based on complaints about noise and sanitation from neighbors, according to Detective Bronson, who added that, Prior to coronavirus restrictions making it harder to raid suspected cockfighting operations, sheriff’s officials typically executed a search warrant every month or two.
The same day he was sworn into office, Gascon issued a directive on so-called lifer parole hearings that indicated that the office s default policy is that we will not attend parole hearings and will support in writing the grant of parole for a person who has already served their mandatory minimum period of incarceration, defined as their MEPD (Minimum Eligible Parole Date), YEPD (Youth Parole Eligible Date) or EPD (Elderly Parole Date).
The directive noted that if the CDCR (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation) has determined in their Comprehensive Risk Assessment that a person represents a `high risk for recidivism, the DDA (deputy district attorney) may, in their letter, take a neutral position on the grant of parole.